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• Two approaches to understand Well-Being


  • Hedonic well-being: Happiness is about increasing pleasure and minimizing pain
  • Eudaimonic well-being: Happiness is about finding your purpose in life
• Three main components of subjective well-being


  • Life satisfaction
  • High Positive Feelings
  • Low Negative Feelings
• Six facets of psychological well-being


  • Self-acceptance
  • Positive relation with other people
  • Autonomy
  • Environmental Mastery
  • Purpose in life
  • Personal growth
• Your socioeconomic status plays an important part in your psychological well-being. It determines your educational level, employment, recreational activities, and goals that you could set.
• Decreasing health condition will likely impact you regarding your ability to foster relationships, fulfill tasks, and other capacities.
• Your personality may affect how you pursue or develop certain areas or dimensions of your well-being. For example, someone who is more introverted may have fewer close relationships compared to a more extroverted colleague.
• Hedonic well-being


  Happiness is about increasing pleasure and minimizing pain
• Eudaimonic well-being


  Happiness is about finding your purpose in life
• Main components of subjective well-being

  • Life satisfaction
  • High positive feelings
  • Low negative feelings
• Facets or components of psychological well-being

  • Self-acceptance
  • Positive relations with other people
  • Autonomy
  • Environmental mastery
  • Purpose in life
  • Personal growth
• Self-acceptance


  The level of positive opinion and acceptance towards yourself
• Positive relations with other people


  The importance of a healthy relationship (loving, open, and intimate) with others
• Autonomy


  Your capacity to decide, pursue, and take action on personal beliefs, convictions, and goals
• Environmental mastery


  Your ability to be able to adapt, manage, and change your environment effectively for your benefit and for those around you
• Purpose in life


  Your ability to define, pursue, and act on your life purpose, and making sense of your experiences (positive or negative), characteristics, and current situation and finding their connection and meaning in your life
• Personal growth


  Your ability to develop and realize your potential, passions, and talents
• Facets of psychological well-being (acronym)

  • Self-acceptance
  • Positive relations with others
  • Autonomy
  • Environmental mastery
  • Purpose in life
  • Personal growth
• Factors that affect psychological well-being

  • Sociodemographic factors
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Socioeconomic level
  • Health
  • Biological factor
  • Personality factor
• Sociodemographic factors


  Your external surroundings and cultural conditions, determined by the culture's belief systems, values, and social rules
• Age


  Plays a role in determining standards for your growth and development, and psychological development through age
• Gender


  In a society, gender plays various roles in determining standards for your behavior, actions, jobs, and set of beliefs, and role designation by gender may affect your well-being
• Socioeconomic level


  Plays an important part in your psychological well-being, determining your educational level, employment, recreational activities, and goals that you could set
• Health


  One of the determinants of psychological well-being, focused on your physical condition, where decreasing health condition will likely impact your ability to foster relationships, fulfill tasks, and other capacities
• Biological factor


  Your functioning body that may limit you to pursue certain goals and actions, caused by genetic influence which is hard to avoid or brush aside
• Personality factor


  Your personality may affect how you pursue or develop certain areas or dimensions of your well-being, e.g. an introverted person may have fewer close relationships compared to an extroverted person
• Stress is not always bad, it is only meant to be temporary to push you to respond to a stressor and then have that person back to your normal state
• Acute stress


  The most common and most recognizable kind of stress, short-term and your body's immediate response to the demands and pressures of the recent past and the near future, can be positive or negative
• Acute stress example


  • Joel's project for English class is due tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Just when he was about to print his final work, he discovered that his printer was out of ink. It was almost 2 a.m., and he knew that the computer shops nearby were closed and will open at noon the next day. He also won't be able to refill the ink of his printer until the following day, when shops are open. He suddenly felt his sweat trickle down his forehead as he tried to get in touch with friends who were hopefully awake and can help him out.
• Episodic acute stress


  Individuals who suffer from this kind of stress experience acute stress very frequently, usually impatient, always in a hurry, have very short tempers, and display high irritability and anxiety
• Chronic stress


  The most damaging kind of stress, consumes you over a very long time, destroys your health and well-being, and is manifested later on as physical illnesses or diseases that can cause death
• Chronic stress example


  • Lena used to come from a rich family. However, her dad lost his job and had to let go of all their luxuries so that they could pay their debts. Lena's family moved from an exclusive subdivision to a small apartment in a bad neighborhood. She had to stop schooling to find a job to help with the finances, and her younger siblings had to transfer to cheaper schools as well. Lena believes there is no more way out of this miserable situation for her family. She grudgingly goes to work in the canteen down the street to wash dishes every day, thinking that this is the end. For years, she has come to believe and accept that this is the fate of their family. Lena is bitter towards rich people and has acted depressed since then.
• Kinds of stress: Acute - most common and short-term only, Episodic Acute - persistent acute stress, Chronic - most damaging type with long-term effects
• Anorexia Nervosa


  Shown by people who think that they are overweight when in fact, they are already underweight, usually restrict their food intake, constantly monitor their weight, and eat small quantities of food
• Bulimia Nervosa


  Shown by people who eat large amounts of food, feel that they cannot control this urge, followed by actions that compensate for this lack of control like forced vomiting or excessive exercise
• Hedonic well-being


  Happiness is about increasing pleasure and minimizing pain
• Eudaimonic well-being


  Happiness is about finding your purpose in life
• Main components of subjective well-being

  • Life satisfaction
  • High positive feelings
  • Low negative feelings
• Facets or components of psychological well-being

  • Self-acceptance
  • Positive relations with other people
  • Autonomy
  • Environmental mastery
  • Purpose in life
  • Personal growth
• Self-acceptance


  The level of positive opinion and acceptance towards yourself
• Positive relations with other people


  The importance of a healthy relationship (loving, open, and intimate) with others